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February 3, 2013

CAS Class 2, Day 6; FMS71; CFC88; and Pixie's ~ Bonus Love

Happy Funday! And Happy Super Bowl Sunday here in America! In my little area of America, we are rooting for the San Francisco 49ers, baby!! How many of you are soooo happy hubby is glued to the tube, so you can craft to your heart's content?! Go crafters, baby!!

I had a little creative fun in the Playhouse yesterday to show you today. First off, I made an EZPZ card for this week's CAS-ual Friday where the theme is "Love Letters."

For those of you who have been around Blogville for a long time, my card is prolly passhay. After Valentine's Day last year, I bought a few things from the Stampin' Up! Clearance Rack, including some incredible designer paper and heart charms. It's all new to me, and may be to some of you, so here is my long tall LOVE-in-letters love letter:

When I cut my off-set opening, I cut down from the top and up from the bottom to leave a half-inch piece of the card stock in the middle to wrap the ribbon around, which made it sturdy to hold the charm. All products are SU!

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So then, I watched my class video for the bonus day, where JJ Bolton wowed me with her amazing die cutting. So I did a CASE of her card. I was able to do that and play along with Freshly Made Sketches and use the fun sketch by the talented Linda C.

Okay, I gotta say, I loved doing the techkneeQ, and I'll do it again, but I found this to be pretty complicated. Maybe it's just me. I used the Spellbinders heart die in three colors. You can see that I nestled just the points of the heart alternating the colors, stuck in place with washi tape.

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It just could be that I found this to be complicated because after I made the above wizlet, I lost it. Not my mental marbles, the wizlet. As I snipped the last bit of washi tape so it was all ready to apply to my card, it fell out of my hands. Oy.

I backed up, I looked around. I creaked on down on all fours and carefully looked under my roller cabs,

cause I didn't want to pull them out and run over my wizlet, leaving wheel marks on it, like a nasty hit and run on a dark tree-lined highway where no one in their right mind should have been walking at dark o'clock anyway. Wait. What?

Have you ever had part of a card slip out of your hands and actually fly INTO drawers like you see here? Kinda weird, huh? Since it wasn't anywhere on the floor, I pulled open every drawer and looked inside. Stickers and embellies on the left, snippets on the right, it was like opening drawers of straw, looking for a needle.

Up and down, in drawers and out, I finally gave up. I mean, the flippin thing had to be there, but before I succum(b)ed to road rage, I thought it best to go to the Bighouse for a drink of fortitude water.

And that's when I looked down as I opened the door and saw this:

Oh, for crying out loud. Oh, yes I didda! (Cute fuzzy socks, huh?)

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Okay, if you're still with me (I thank you), here is my card for the Bonus Saturday card class and Freshly Made Sketches:

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Speaking of snippets, I used my scraps for the wee hearts, so I get to take a break and go play with the other girls at Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground. I hope you can join us! We are going to make a topper for the treehouse! I'll let you guys shinny on up to the top while I watch from over by the donkey, who conveniently is wearing a keg around his neck to ward off the win tree chills.

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I am so delighted to introduce two new friends today! Please help me welcome Cathy of Cathy's Card Spot and Laura Norris. Cathy is just revving up her blog making awesome cards and I know she'd love some visits. Laura, I'm not a Google+ member, so I can't get past your profile page. If you have a blog, please email me (see my profile page on side bar) and let me know so I can share it here. Thank you, ladies, and welcome!!

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I adore your clean graphic designs! So fresh! And I feel your pain at losing something - I found a missing "piece" the other night stuck on my elbow after I spent forever looking at it - then made another one!

Darnell, both of your cards are FAB! And your fuzzy socks are adorable too, I have had pieces with adhesive on them stick to my arm many times and when something disappears, that is always the first place I look. I will be spending the day in my craft room, not a football fan at all, so it is a wonderful day!

Oh dear Darnell, I am still giggling at your lost wizlet.........great socks btw. Your cards are fabulous! I love both but the second is amazing! Don't know much about sport but hope your team won....... Hugs, Annie x

I have to say I am well impressed by the cleanliness of your floor! Where are all the bits that fall out of the punches? The thread ends? The stray pieces off the back of the dimension pads and double sided tape?

I feel ashamed about my craft pod floor now LOL!!!

Hope you have had a good weekend.

Love Jules xx

p.s. Sorry forgot to say .. .. loving your makes very very much and managed to find the heart(s).

Hilarious!! That stuff happens to me all the time!! I LOVE how you card turned out!! Don't you just love that class?!!

I had mine all ready to go with the double sided adhesive sticky and for some reason I turned it over sticky side down on my desk!?!?!?! GRRR So super annoying. It defeats the purpose of using that EZRelease tape to hold it all together. I got it off the desk and onto the card eventually. ha

LOL isn't that the way after you looked through everything.. I love both your cards they are just lovely that one with the trinket so pretty and love how it hangs of the side on its own little ribbon tag. The technique you did looks so awesome on the second card. Glad you showed it on the corrugated cardboard, as I was trying to figure out how it got those little gaps on the card, to then look back and see the other photo to have the ahah moment.. Your little embossed hearts are just the perfect touch just brilliant and so pretty and delicate. Thanks for the visit to my blog and your lovely comments. Sandy :)

Fab cards Dippy - the first is great with your side tag holding the heart; really clever. Then, after I'd finished wiping the tears of laughter away, was blown away (a bit like your snippet.......!lol) by your second card - it's gorgeous and would be perfect for our A2CAS challenge which, fortuitously, is HEARTS............ so hope to see you there?

These are both fantastic, but that first one has winner written all over it! And the second one gives me an idea for my Flight Corporal son! Well done. On Friday, I found the ornament stamp I was tearing my craft room apart for before Christmas. Oh yes, I thought, that's exactly where I put it! Aagh!

Oh Gramma Darnell, you do make us laugh out loud and don't you know how young and trendy you are - my teenage daughter always wears fuzzy socks! Two fabulous cards, I particularly love the 'letters' one, what a great design and so clever how you've dangled the heart - great engineering! xx

Darnell, you bring a big smile and a BIG chuckle to me! Fabulous to read about your antics...yes have lost things and thought, where the heck can it be, I just had it! too funny to look down and see it on your cute socks!! LOVE, love love this card you made...you have mastered the Clean and Simple...what are your doing taking this class???

Fabulous cards...I laughed when you lost your thingy cuz i have had that happen to me...Sometimes I find them when I put my PJ's on for bed!!!

7 guys upstairs watching the game...I just cleaned up the food and counters etc. I'm back down in my craft room and i am laughing at all the "Look out Boys"!!! The funny little things they say and call out make me giggle!!!

Oh dear...lost wizlets...I always come away from this blog with new vocabulary. (and these I can use in public too! Love your cards, and that stripes heart looks quite complex. Both were so pretty, enjoyed seeing them. Great job! Hope the fortitude tasted good too. I'll pop over to see Cathy...love making new friends. Have a great week. Hugs

Hah Hah! I thought I was the only one who pulled stunts like that! LOL Your cards are both fabulous! I love that pink & grey number with the chevrons and hearts! The colors are FABULOUS!! I feel a case coming on :)

Hahahaha!! I woke my dog up laughing so hard at your post!! That is so funny!! But I LOVE that idea! That is so neat! I'm going to get my heart dies out and give that a try. Hopefully it won't end up stuck to my foot somewhere! haha! Really love both of your cards though!

I'm new to Stampin Up so this is new to me! I love how you've attached the charm, it's like an optical illusion! And I laughed out loud when I saw your sock!! I've hunted for something stuck to my elbow before! Haha! Gorgeous cards!

Fabulous card Darnell! I love that clean and simple look! The Chevrons are soooo fabulous! I have lots a Valentine's Day heart stamp in my craft room somewhere and cannot find it anywhere. I have a sneaking suspicion that a certain 4 year old may have removed it!!! I really like your take on Linda's sketch! Great job! Thanks for joining us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

My goodness that LOVE card (sorry to shout) is a real wow Darnell! So pleased you found the wizzlet but I feel your pain - this is a regular occurrence in the Crafting Square Metre! What a brilliant idea about the keg - who needs a water fountain when you can have a drinks donkey?! See you there,Vicky x

I am sooo chuffed that you pinned my card ! what a compliment from you especially as you make really fabulous cards and I'm loving these ones both are soooo classy cant decide which one I like the best! x

Great cards, and would you believe I had almost the identical thing happen to me today. I dropped a charm that I wanted to put on my card, I looked on the floor not there, looked on my desk again, not there, looked everywhere, I finally realized it was stuck to my the sweat shirt I was wearing, had to go show hubby, who just shook his head. Yes, he is quite used to me doing things like that. TFS...nice to know I am not alone!!!

Oh you always crack. me. up. How FUNNY that you have a PHOTO of your WIZLET stuck to your SOCK! I am quite sure no one has ever thought to take a picture of that and post it ... which makes you such an innovator : ) But let's be honest, it happens to everyone. Weekly for me. And now when that happens I'll be sure to check my socks first!

OK, now on to cards .., LOVE your valentines chevron card! It's the bottom of a heart, oh yes it is! So brilliant. Really turned out well, Darnell!

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I have been stamping and making cards since 2002. I've been married 47 years to Kevin, known herein as "Mister." Our son Daniel and his wife Rachel have twin sons Henry and Adam. Card-making and blogging are wonderful hobbies which have brought me noodles of friends! Oh, and I have an imaginary hamster named Hammy who keeps me in line. Thank you for visiting, joining, and commenting! It will be my pleasure to return the flavor!!